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Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
4 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
4 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
4 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
4 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
4 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Report memory used in AWS RDS to reports and dashboards

Seeing the amount of used memory alongside CPU would help customers make an informed decision around rightsizing and other utilization / consumption metrics as to how best optimize their workloads.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
6 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
6 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted